About

Holli Carrell is a writer, educator, and editor originally from Utah, now living in Cincinnati, where she is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Cincinnati with a research concentration in feminist and queer documentary and long-form poetics. A 2024-2025 Taft Research Center Dissertation Fellow, her poetry and essays have appeared in 32 Poems, Poetry Northwest, The Cincinnati Review, Ninth Letter, The Journal, Bennington Review, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Blackbird, and Salt Hill, among other places, and have received nominations for Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and The Pushcart Prize. Winner of the 2024 Jean Chimsky Poetry Prize, and a finalist for the 2022 Greg Grummer Poetry Contest and River Styx's International Poetry Contest, she has received additional fellowships and awards from The University of Cincinnati’s Office of Research, the New York State Summer Writers Institute, and Hunter College, where she received her MFA. She is a former assistant poetry and nonfiction editor at The Cincinnati Review.